You would be correct. Today they will be doing repairs to the server closet air conditioner. It will take two days ( hopefully ) And probally Wednesday they will do the weekly outage.

When they do get back online expect the pipes to be plugged up for a day or two.

I would think that, depending on just when the AC repairs are finished, they will probably just do the weekly maintenance when they bring everything up but before going live with it. With any luck, that will still be Tuesday.

(Or, the way luck sometimes runs, the AC repairs will take longer than two days and they'll be down all week or longer.)DavidSitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I work in a data center as a critical site engineer.
Without the AC working 100% all the servers would crash within an hour or sooner.
The added cost of electricity and AC maintenance to keep the place cool is figured in for most cases. Unexpected AC break-downs happen unfortunately.

is it still down as i request updates but just getting deferred
06 00 16th jan 13

It's not"down" just after an outage of this length (project was down for a day before this) there are thousands of machines all trying to report completed work and request new work, could take a few days before things settle down."A liberal and proud to be"

Is there a reason that work units download so very slow from Seti?
Downloads run 10 to 15 times faster on Rosetta.
This has been going on for months.
Rosetta downloads at 500 to 1200 KBps and Seti downloads at
2.49 to 9.78 KBps
Am I doing something wrong?

It's a shame that a lot of bandwidth is probably wasted though, because currently I only seem to get partial downloads. Work units download anywhere between 0.94% and 96.73%. Tons are stuck in download, and only a few made it to 100% today.

I also noticed that a lot of workunits (that didn't download btw) are for my GPU with an estimated run time of 2,5 minutes. So if they would have downloaded, it would create even more congestion in a matter of minutes.

Of course I have no idea what is and isn't possible with the scheduler, but wouldn't it be better to schedule a few long running work units after you've been offline, so you don't get bothered by those machines for a few hours and can tend to the rest of the clients?

It's a shame that a lot of bandwidth is probably wasted though, because currently I only seem to get partial downloads. Work units download anywhere between 0.94% and 96.73%. Tons are stuck in download, and only a few made it to 100% today.

I also noticed that a lot of workunits (that didn't download btw) are for my GPU with an estimated run time of 2,5 minutes. So if they would have downloaded, it would create even more congestion in a matter of minutes.

Of course I have no idea what is and isn't possible with the scheduler, but wouldn't it be better to schedule a few long running work units after you've been offline, so you don't get bothered by those machines for a few hours and can tend to the rest of the clients?

a) the "stuck downloads" syndrome is common for the servers when there's a "Traffic jam": It's normal, and will work itself out.

B) The folks at Berkeley don't necessarily know what type of WU (workunit) a "tape" will produce. Sometimes a 'tape' starts with normal WU's and about halfway through, starts producing shorties. It depends on what the Aracibo telescope is doing while the "tape" is being produced: sometimes that changes while the "tape" is running. The GPU's run time estimates are often wrong - it depends on what kind of WU's you've previously processed. (With an estimate of 2.5 minutes, you must have high-end nVidia Keppler(s)!). Hello, from Bangkok, Thailand!...

I'd appreciate it if someone in the know would explain the chart. It says it's a chart for a gigibit eithernet controller. That's 1,000 megabits, yet the graph shows it's being utilized at less than 100 megabits. So what's the problem?

The easy bit first...
The 1Gb bandwidth has been throttled to 100Mb by "campus politics"

Next the less easy bits
The green mass is the data rate from S@H to the rest of the word (confusingly called "in")
The blue line is the data rate into S@H (and confusingly called "out")Bob Smith
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